Happy Thoughts

Well, I must admit, we had one of the WORST lunches today that we have had in a very long time. Hubby chose the downtown IHOP. We had lunch (not pancakes or eggs but lunch) and it was awful. The food was 'okay' but the waitress barely spoke English, she got my husband's order wrong which upset him, they bring you so much food it just become unappetizing and I wasn't terribly hungry to begin with so it all amounted to an awful, expensive unappetizing lunch. For another $5, we could have gone to any of the nicest restaurants in town, had a delicious lunch with a server who spoke English and enjoyed it. Ugh. What a fiasco.

After our disastrous lunch, we went to the range. He went and shot and I went and had coffee and a cookie at the local coffee house a few blocks away. It was good. Better than lunch had been! I stopped at the Pet Shelter Thrift Shop just to kill 10 minutes but I really wasn't terribly interested in anything there. I was just killing time. I went back and picked him up. Our friend there asked us if we wanted to take  day trip to Charleston on Monday. We said that would be fine, so we have that tentatively planned. Charleston is very nice. It is only about 90 minutes away and it is a beautiful city. We can have a nice lunch, do a little shopping and maybe drive over the Cooper River Bridge. We'll see if the trip materializes. These things tend to be tentative.

That was it, We stopped at WalMart and picked up $35 worth of stuff. I cannot believe that Coburg milk (a local brand) is $6.00 a gallon. That is just depressing. $6.00 a gallon. FOR MILK!!!! JEeEEeeeEEeezzzzzzzz! What if you have 3 kids? Give me a break. Please. Prices are just getting ridiculous and crazy.

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Television.

A few random thoughts about television. I have pretty much given up television. Not totally but I have just had enough of the constant drone, trying to be interested in watching endless reruns of shows that I have seen over and over and over again. Frankly, I've just lost interest in it. Yes, I have gone cold turkey, just like I did with buying lottery tickets. I just stopped. Just like the lottery tickets, it's pointless and accomplishes nothing. Now, not 100%. I would never even try to admit that. I will still watch in the wee hours of the morning when I wake up and can't go back to sleep. And I will still watch at 6:00 in the morning when I am drinking my coffee and checking CNN to see if the world has gone to hell in a handbasket. But now...this 7-10 time that I hate so much. TV.? Not interested anymore.

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That's it. It is quiet. I was thinking about giving Cookie a bath but I can do that tomorrow. I will read my book with the awful title and just have a quiet evening. I made sweet potatoes and corn and pork chops for dinner. I had some crackers and juice. I couldn't eat much after our awful lunch.

Okay......gotta go for now.

Tired and .......well, just tired.

Good night.

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• #2 Comment from wwfbison 
  5/14/08 8:33 AM | Permalink

  I was at IHOP twice and each time it was okay but that was years ago.  Doesn't suck to have a bad meal!  Wow, I can't believe milk is that expensive.  I don't know what it is around here ~ I am going to have to look.  I guess I figure I have to get it so....it is what it is.  Maybe I should get my own cow.  
  Lisa
• #1 Comment from mleighin21st 
  5/13/08 9:36 PM | Permalink

  I've never been to IHOP.  Sorry you had such a lousy lunch.  Are you kidding me?  Milk is $6.00 a gallon?  Here it's only $3.80.  Gas went up to $3.99 though.  ::sigh::
                                                    Smiles,  Leigh
  
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